Ross Douthat has been an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times since 2009. Previously, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic. He is the author of The Decadent Society, To Change the Church, Bad Religion, and Privilege, and a co-author, with Reihan Salam, of Grand New Party. He is the film critic for National Review. He lives with his wife and four children in New Haven, Connecticut.
“A harrowing, and often profound, account of how one man’s life can
be laid almost to waste by Fate.”—Wall Street Journal
“Douthat artfully weaves two stories together. The first is the
story of his own illness, the increasingly outlandish treatments he
is willing to try, and the havoc the affliction wreaks in his life.
As he looks for a cure, he uncovers a second story: the strange
tale of Lyme disease itself . . . No two chronic illnesses
are exactly alike, but even so this book will likely resonate with
anyone who has suffered from a chronic condition or has cared for
someone who has.”—Paul W. Gleason, LA Review of Books
“Vulnerable and moving.”—Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post
“The Deep Places is a powerful memoir about our fragile hopes in
the face of chronic illness. Ross Douthat is calling us all to
courage and compassion: courage for those of us who suffer, and
compassion to all those who walk alongside.”—Kate Bowler, New York
Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason
“A vividly narrated account . . . Douthat manages a really
remarkable thing here: to weave together his story of a body’s
pain, a mind’s vacillations, and a spirit’s struggles with an
account of how the medical establishment deals with, or simply
refuses to deal with, conditions it does not understand. That
Douthat can weave all this into a unity and even make the book a
kind of page-turner—that’s something special.”—Alan Jacobs, author
of How to Think and Breaking Bread with the Dead
“To call it a memoir about illness is to seriously underestimate
this beautiful new book. Douthat brings a believer’s heart, a
journalist’s curiosity, and a writer’s talent to tell an achingly
human story that is, ultimately, about life.”—James Martin, SJ, New
York Times bestselling author of Learning to Pray
“I read the book in one sitting. It is so profound and truthful
about the human condition. I wanted it to go on and on. I had no
idea that Douthat was such a poet of pain and hope.”—Rod Dreher,
New York Times bestselling author of Live Not by Lies and The
Benedict Option
“This is a great book and it’s going to be important and it’s about
a lot more than Lyme disease; to this nonsufferer it made Lyme
disease fascinating.”—Peggy Noonan, columnist, The Wall Street
Journal
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